Xenophobic UK politician ranting about "political correctness" gets a public spanking from an historian
by Cory Doctorow from on (#1E9FP)
Chris Wood is a councillor from the UK Independence Party (UKIP), a xenophobic party known for its leader and lawmakers' racist and sexist gaffes; this week, he added to the annals of UKIP inanity when he took to Twitter to complain that the BBC had cast a person of color as Margaret of Anjou, wife of King Henry VI. (more")